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Learning Mathematics: A Community Collaboration, Sayonita Ghosh Hajra Sep 2025

Learning Mathematics: A Community Collaboration, Sayonita Ghosh Hajra

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This study provides a “snapshot” of a service-learning activity in an elementary school with fu-ture elementary teachers in a southern public university in a mathematics content course on arithmetic in constructing equivalent fractions by comprehending the importance of the whole in fractions. This study also demonstrates how a service-learning activity can be incorporated into a mathematics content course to give a meaningful interpretation of abstract mathematics to future elementary teachers. It provided the future teachers a platform to work with children to connect a fun-filled activity with one of the most difficult concepts in elementary mathematics—fractions. Findings of the activity …

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Needs Assessment Of An International Service-Learning Program: An Innovative Approach To Community-Based Learning, Sara Pullen Sep 2025

Needs Assessment Of An International Service-Learning Program: An Innovative Approach To Community-Based Learning, Sara Pullen

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This study used an original survey to evaluate the physical therapy and education needs of health care workers affiliated with a community hospital in the Dominican Republic. Results suggest that health care workers affiliated with this hospital could be an ideal audience to focus the initiation of a sustainable rehabilitation training program. The survey described can assist other academic physical therapy and medical programs in the planning and implementation of international service-learning opportunities for students and faculty by providing a guide for assessing the needs of local stakeholders.

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Everyone Has Humanity In Them: Multidimensional Teaching And Learning Through Philosophy-Based Discussion, Jennifer Cutler Merritt, Loren Intolubbe-Chmil Sep 2025

Everyone Has Humanity In Them: Multidimensional Teaching And Learning Through Philosophy-Based Discussion, Jennifer Cutler Merritt, Loren Intolubbe-Chmil

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

While many K-12 alternative education programs use innovative pedagogy and practice, the students who attend them often remain educationally marginalized. Simultaneously, in higher education, experiential learning courses grounded in the theory of engaged scholarship have frequently cast alternative K-12 students in roles subordinate to those of their college student “helpers.” This paper sets forth a preliminary analysis of a community-university positive youth development model as an asset-based approach promoting mutuality and transformation, in the spirit of Freire’s conscientização.

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Mutual Transformation Through Arts-Based Service Learning With Australian Aboriginal Communities: An Australian Case Study, Anne Power, Dawn Bennett, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet Sep 2025

Mutual Transformation Through Arts-Based Service Learning With Australian Aboriginal Communities: An Australian Case Study, Anne Power, Dawn Bennett, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper reports from a national arts-based service-learning project in Australia. Working with pre-service teachers, the paper employs the theoretical framework of sentipensante (sensing/thinking), which has been successfully used in disciplines such as policy, leadership, and communication. Participant stories reveal a network of relations that create understanding of shared existence, and these learning experiences emerge as variously threshold, transformative, and/or troublesome. Findings lend support to the value of flexible, critical service learning approaches, particularly in diverse cultural contexts.

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Academics Meets Action: Community Engagement Motivations, Benefits, And Constraints, Alicia M. Schatteman Sep 2025

Academics Meets Action: Community Engagement Motivations, Benefits, And Constraints, Alicia M. Schatteman

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

In recent years, civic engagement has increased with college students, which has been recognized by the Carnegie Institute and is the focus of this article. One example is the growth in community service and service-learning programs. This study builds on the work of Clary et al. (1996 and 1998) that examined student motivations for participating in community service projects. The purpose of this paper is to determine who participates in a college community service event, what motivates them to participate, what are the constraints, and what are the benefits of participating. Furthermore, this study adds to the literature and uses …

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Reconsidering The American Dream And U.S. Latino Culture In A College Spanish Service-Learning Course, Zak K. Montgomery, Serena B. Ugoretz, Sarah E. Montgomery, Sarah Vander Zanden, Ashley Jorgensen, Mirsa Rudic Sep 2025

Reconsidering The American Dream And U.S. Latino Culture In A College Spanish Service-Learning Course, Zak K. Montgomery, Serena B. Ugoretz, Sarah E. Montgomery, Sarah Vander Zanden, Ashley Jorgensen, Mirsa Rudic

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This study explores how a joint Photovoice project about the American Dream between a U.S. Latino culture course and a multicultural middle school class influenced college students’ perceptions of Latino culture. In addition to outlining the service-learning course design, the study also analyzes the trajectory of the students’ understanding of the American Dream. As a result of the partnership, college students’ American Dreams shifted away from the archetypal personal success narrative toward a more civically- oriented approach.

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Reading Beyond Research Results: The Hidden Curriculum In A College And Urban High Schools Partnership, Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers Sep 2025

Reading Beyond Research Results: The Hidden Curriculum In A College And Urban High Schools Partnership, Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

The article draws from a study of a Gear Up partnership between a predominantly white middle class college and four urban high schools with a majority of low-income students of color. Teacher education candidates participated in community engagement through Gear Up at four urban high schools. The study shows that both college and high school students benefited from the partnership. However, employing internal and anticolonial theoretical lenses reveals the hidden curriculum that the positive results attained from the partnership may serve to buttress the myth of dominant culture’s supremacy.

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Impact Of Service-Learning Courses With A Social Justice Curriculum On The Development Of Social Responsibility Among College Students, Yan Wang Sep 2025

Impact Of Service-Learning Courses With A Social Justice Curriculum On The Development Of Social Responsibility Among College Students, Yan Wang

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

In this study, six service-learning courses were studied to examine if a curriculum’s social justice emphasis has a significant impact on college students’ development of different types of social responsibility. The results suggest that service-learning courses with a social justice emphasis had a positive impact on the development of participatory and justice-oriented social responsibility, while service-learning courses without such an emphasis did not have an impact on the development of social responsibility.

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Current Research Interests In International Service-Learning, Jessica Arends Sep 2025

Current Research Interests In International Service-Learning, Jessica Arends

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper aims to identify and present what research perspectives are currently practiced in the field of international service learning (ISL) in higher education. The author gathered articles on ISL from high-profile publications and analyzed the methodological lens from which each study was conducted. Using the knowledge-constitutive framework of Jürgen Habermas, each article was categorized as technical, practical, or critical. The author found that while the majority of studies in the ISL field are conducted from a practical research interest, the articles most commonly cited are technical. This analysis is followed by an exploration as to why research interests are …

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Ux Design Meets Generative Ai: Posing Questions About Future Implications For Design Education And Practice, Filipe Honorato, Violeta Clemente, Ricardo Sosa Sep 2025

Ux Design Meets Generative Ai: Posing Questions About Future Implications For Design Education And Practice, Filipe Honorato, Violeta Clemente, Ricardo Sosa

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Generative AI is rapidly transforming the creative work landscape and our expectations about everyday products and services. This emerging paradigm shift driven by Generative AI presents both challenges and opportunities for the futures of UX design education and practice. While much of the recent research on Generative AI and human-computer co-creativity has been focused on technology advancements, design research offers valuable potential to anticipate negative impacts, co-envision alternative futures, and steer the development of Generative AI toward more positive design outcomes to individuals and communities. This paper presents a scoping review to identify focus areas, research approaches, and reflexive questions …

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A Post-Anthropocentric Creative Mindset Through Design Education, Eva Monestier, Marita Canina Sep 2025

A Post-Anthropocentric Creative Mindset Through Design Education, Eva Monestier, Marita Canina

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Planet Earth is experiencing profound and irreversible transformations caused by the ongoing climate crisis. Simultaneously, technological advancements often create a misleading belief that these complex issues can be solved through with simple tech-fixes. However, to address the root causes of unsustainability, a radical shift in mindset is necessary. It is essential to challenge anthropocentric Euromodern narratives based on binary categories (nature-culture, humans-nonhumans), which have historically perpetuated detachment from the environment. Instead, a more relational understanding of reality is needed - one that positions humans and nonhumans within a more-than-human web of life. This shift necessitates the development of new design …

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Unfolding Interactions In Design Studio Courses: Visual Tools For Design Critiques In Terms Of Content And Style, Onur Yılmaz, Koray Gelmez Sep 2025

Unfolding Interactions In Design Studio Courses: Visual Tools For Design Critiques In Terms Of Content And Style, Onur Yılmaz, Koray Gelmez

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Knowledge in design studios is mostly constructed via discussions, dialogues or in a systematic way, critiques. Thus, understanding design critiques is crucial for evaluating and improving design studio courses, and thus learning and teaching experiences. This paper introduces two visual tools that can assist in categorising design critiques in terms of their flow, content and style. The first tool visualises the intensity and distribution of different critique categories to make the topics and ways to generate critiques explicit. The latter illustrates the correlations between content and style in critiques and reveals the potential relationships between them. These tools aim to; …

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Multilingual Design, Isabel Meirelles, Diane Mikhael, Lesley-Ann Noel, Lesley-Ann Noel Sep 2025

Multilingual Design, Isabel Meirelles, Diane Mikhael, Lesley-Ann Noel, Lesley-Ann Noel

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This conversation is an interview between three professors from a university located in a large cosmopolitan city in Canada. The interview to understand the motivation behind the similar approaches of two of the professors. During the conversation, the professors explore the complexity and opportunities for curricula innovation when teaching design in a very diverse context. They explore how themes of pluriversality, multiculturalism, identities, resilience, and how complicated intersectionality and the local context intertwine and have impacted their curricula, and how these themes can inform the design classes. The professors’ focus in the conversation is on pedagogical strategies, specifically, how they …

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When Methods Create Space: A Conversation On Intertwining Disciplines, Cultures And Communities In Design Education, Niki Wallace, Laura Knight Sep 2025

When Methods Create Space: A Conversation On Intertwining Disciplines, Cultures And Communities In Design Education, Niki Wallace, Laura Knight

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The nature of design education is changing and must continue to change in response to increasing complexity and uncertainty. This paper presents a conversation between two UK-based design educators who explore how these contemporary societal challenges are being tackled in two interdisciplinary Masters courses aimed at relational and complexity-led approaches to design. The conversation reveals the importance for complex and collaborative practices to embrace relational, visual, reflexive and flexible modalities. This in turn highlights the need for teaching to evolve beyond fixed design processes in order to develop flexible practitioners with the critical capacities for navigating uncertain futures.

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Unfolding Dialogue: Pedagogies Of Reciprocity And Community In Design, Charlotte Falk, Amanda Huynh Sep 2025

Unfolding Dialogue: Pedagogies Of Reciprocity And Community In Design, Charlotte Falk, Amanda Huynh

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How can dialogue between educators reveal the shared labour and supports that sustain responsive design teaching? What role does dialogic exchange play in shaping and improving the relational work of design educators? In response to the calls for conversation and for teaching statements, this paper formalizes an ongoing dialogue between two emerging industrial design educators. Anchored by the theme Intertwinia: Principles and Methods, we explore shared commitments to adaptability, experimentation, and collaboration in design education. Building on exchanges that began when we first co-taught a course—then evolved through informal studio snapshots, late-night text threads, remote critiques, and cross-institutional, transcontinental conversations—this …

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A New Career Path For Designers: Crowdwork And Designers’ Motivations To Engage In This Employment Model, İrem Dilek Alptekin, Pınar Kaygan Sep 2025

A New Career Path For Designers: Crowdwork And Designers’ Motivations To Engage In This Employment Model, İrem Dilek Alptekin, Pınar Kaygan

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The unabated development of technology continues to affect human life in many aspects, one of which is working life. Over the past decade the world of work has been experiencing digital transformation. Integrating the digital processes and tools into business models, digital transformation has led to the shift in the traditional business structures, hierarchies, relations, and the workplace. Thanks to this shift in the traditional way of work, today, it is possible to outsource the work through an open call to a geographically dispersed mass of people. This means that, companies or individuals now have access to an indefinitely large …

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“Dear My Friend:” Reflective Letter-Writing To Gain Deeper Insights From Design Students, Koray Gelmez Sep 2025

“Dear My Friend:” Reflective Letter-Writing To Gain Deeper Insights From Design Students, Koray Gelmez

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Reflective practices have become an integral tool in design education, bridging technical skill-building with emotional and cognitive improvement. This study investigates the use of reflective letter-writing as a pedagogical approach for a first-year design studio course, where sophomore students wrote letters to incoming freshmen. These letters provided an opportunity for students to share their experiences, insights, and advice, creating a reflective space that deepened their connection with their learning processes. The study draws on qualitative data from 25 design students collected over two years, employing thematic analysis to uncover themes in the letters. The findings revealed two main categories: themes …

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Disconnected Measures: Exploring The Relationship Between Critical Thinking Tests And Design Studio Outcomes, Philip Plowright, Ahu Yolac Sep 2025

Disconnected Measures: Exploring The Relationship Between Critical Thinking Tests And Design Studio Outcomes, Philip Plowright, Ahu Yolac

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This analysis investigates the deployment of the Cornell Critical Thinking Test Level Z (CCTT-Z) as a placement tool to assess incoming students' readiness for a design thinking studio at the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University. In 2018, the college shifted its first-year curriculum from an arts-based model to one grounded in design thinking, emphasizing process orientated practices focused on cognitive skill development, problem-solving, and human-centred design. The college aimed to identify students potentially unprepared for the cognitive demands of design thinking so focused support could be actualized. In Fall 2024, the CCTT-Z was administered to 149 …

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Designing The World Precedes Designing The Word: The Paulo Freire Method Applied To Typography Education, Hiền L.D. Phan, Azadeh Jalali, Frederick M. C. Van Amstel Sep 2025

Designing The World Precedes Designing The Word: The Paulo Freire Method Applied To Typography Education, Hiền L.D. Phan, Azadeh Jalali, Frederick M. C. Van Amstel

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This paper describes a critical pedagogy design experiment in typography education in a public university in the United States of America. Inspired by Paulo Freire’s claim that reading the world precedes reading the word, typography was reframed in this experiment as a designing of the world through designing the word. To design words this way, graphic design students need first to re-read the designs of their worlds, have something to say about that, and then critically embed their (designed) word into their (designed) world. This experiment builds upon the critical design pedagogy program set forth by the Design & Oppression …

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Design Education Exploring Iot In Sports With An Ethnographic Toolkit, Luca D'Elia, Mariia Ershova, Miriam Saviano, Alessandro Aiuti, Viktor Malakuczi, Lorenzo Imbesi Sep 2025

Design Education Exploring Iot In Sports With An Ethnographic Toolkit, Luca D'Elia, Mariia Ershova, Miriam Saviano, Alessandro Aiuti, Viktor Malakuczi, Lorenzo Imbesi

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Design emphasizes the understanding of user needs through direct interaction to build empathy before developing solutions. This approach is crucial for emerging technologies like IoT, which lack defined roles in daily life. Modern design education incorporates ethnography to enable students to engage with approachable communities, facilitating effective user research within academic project timelines. This contribution presents a didactic approach that intertwines human-centered research skills with technological prototyping. The focus is on sporting communities in public spaces, explored with a purpose-built ethnographic toolkit designed to uncover user insights and develop IoT solutions that enhance community activities. The article describes the preparation …

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Design Literacies & Futures Literacies: Pedagogies For Diverse Futures, Manuhuia Barcham, Gillian Russell, Criag Badke, Tyler Fox Sep 2025

Design Literacies & Futures Literacies: Pedagogies For Diverse Futures, Manuhuia Barcham, Gillian Russell, Criag Badke, Tyler Fox

Learn X Design Conference Series

Design pedagogy is futural. Our field of practice is to create design leaders of the future. In the context of uncertain futures an exploration of design literacies and futures literacies is a means of preparing our students for what is to come. Framed as a skill that uses collective intelligence, imagination and experimentation to think about the future in innovative ways, futures literacies and, so too design literacies, are about building people’s capacities to make sense of complex situations, while crafting ways to act that are more consistent with the type of futures we want. But how is this to …

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Reflective Correspondences: Letter Writing As A Tool For Design Education, Ana Cecilia Schettino, Rogerio Camara Sep 2025

Reflective Correspondences: Letter Writing As A Tool For Design Education, Ana Cecilia Schettino, Rogerio Camara

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This paper discusses the results and content of letters written by students, as the final assignment in a design theory class. The proposal involved using correspondence as a method of reflection. The aim was to explore the pedagogical potential of letter writing to foster reflective learning in design, as well as to examine epistolary writing as an activity that promotes analytical thinking and a deeper understanding of design as both a practice and a discipline. Students were challenged to compose letters addressed to someone (living or deceased), something, or somewhere – in the past, present, or even the future – …

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Teaching Contemporary Design Methods In Highly Regulated Industries: A Case Study, Jasmine Sarin, Asawer Ahyed, Santosh Basapur, Raj Shah, Zach Pino Sep 2025

Teaching Contemporary Design Methods In Highly Regulated Industries: A Case Study, Jasmine Sarin, Asawer Ahyed, Santosh Basapur, Raj Shah, Zach Pino

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This paper presents an examination of teaching contemporary design methods to professionals in highly regulated industries; defined as sectors characterized by extensive government oversight, strict compliance requirements, standardized processes, and formal risk management protocols that significantly constrain operational decision-making and innovation approaches. While design thinking has gained widespread adoption across many sectors, professionals in highly regulated industries often need help with design approaches due to perceived conflicts with evidence-based practices and regulatory requirements. Through a structured series of workshops, we contended with these dynamics while introducing systems thinking and futuring methods to medical researchers and community navigators. The study addresses …

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Creating Landscapes: Sustainable Insights Through Art-Based Methods, Karolina Uggla, Andrea Hvistendahl Sep 2025

Creating Landscapes: Sustainable Insights Through Art-Based Methods, Karolina Uggla, Andrea Hvistendahl

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The interactive, art-based workshop concept Creating Landscapes was piloted twice in November 2024. The workshop invites participants to critically engage with questions of sustainability and materiality through hands-on interaction with discarded objects, addressing the complexity of planetary and societal resources and life in a concrete way. The workshop starts from how we interact with material artefacts and how to create new landscapes and see things differently. Following the initial implementations, we – the designers and facilitators – collected participant feedback to inform future iterations. This case study provides a description of the workshop idea, its implementation process, and preliminary insights, …

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Decolonizing The Engineering Designer, Leslie Wexler, Matt Borland, Kate Sellen Sep 2025

Decolonizing The Engineering Designer, Leslie Wexler, Matt Borland, Kate Sellen

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In a dynamic conversation between three design educators, the group explores their experiences in decolonizing education and fostering transformative learning environments. Their discussion emphasizes nurturing the "whole self"—intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions. The educators reflect on how to integrate holistic practices into a graduate level Engineering design reading course (SYDE760 - Decolonizing Engineering Design) that challenged traditional approaches which prioritize technical skills and expertise. Instead, their goal was to balance all aspects of the self, creating spaces where students could authentically engage and grow. The conversation highlights practical classroom experiences associated with Indigenous pedagogies and traditional knowledges, such as …

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A Civic Engagement Agenda For Caribbean Higher Education, Glenn A. Bowen Sep 2025

A Civic Engagement Agenda For Caribbean Higher Education, Glenn A. Bowen

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Civic engagement programs have become prevalent in higher education in many regions of the world. Interest in engagement has increased at a time when Caribbean countries are strengthening the regional integration movement in response to the demands of globalization. Based on a cross-national assessment, this article describes the manifestations of civic engagement in Caribbean universities and proposes an agenda for institutionalizing the practice. The civic engagement agenda is applicable to higher education institutions elsewhere.

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Service Learning Projects In The Public Relations Writing Course, Deborah A. Silverman Sep 2025

Service Learning Projects In The Public Relations Writing Course, Deborah A. Silverman

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This study explores the pedagogical effectiveness of service learning in the Public Relations Writing course. Surveys of students and their nonprofit clients, student reflection papers, and comparisons of grades in service-learning vs. non-service-learning sections found that the service-learning approach resulted in greater understanding of course content, higher grades on writing assignments, and greater appreciation for diverse cultures. Clients said students lightened staff workloads, brought new ideas, and enabled them to better meet community needs.

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Serve At Your Own Risk?: Service-Learning In The Promotion And Tenure Process, Jacquelyn B. Frank, Mark Malaby, Laura Raidonis Bates, Marcie Coulter-Kern, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, J. R. Jamison, Linda Stalker Prokopy, Nathan A. Schaumleffel Sep 2025

Serve At Your Own Risk?: Service-Learning In The Promotion And Tenure Process, Jacquelyn B. Frank, Mark Malaby, Laura Raidonis Bates, Marcie Coulter-Kern, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, J. R. Jamison, Linda Stalker Prokopy, Nathan A. Schaumleffel

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Pre-tenure faculty integrating service-learning into their professional roles are often uncertain about its position in the faculty reward system. This study gathered data from administrators at five institutions of higher education in Indiana to learn if and how service-learning is credited toward tenure and promotion at their institutions. The results point to the need for junior faculty members and administrators to be cautious when implementing and evaluating service-learning initiatives.

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Supporting Community Safety Through University-Community Partnerships: Exploring Models Of Engagement, James M. Frabutt Sep 2025

Supporting Community Safety Through University-Community Partnerships: Exploring Models Of Engagement, James M. Frabutt

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper explores various models of university-community engagement to support youth violence prevention and community safety. A series of case examples from the Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro are highlighted. The case examples-four projects spanning a six-year time period-are the springboard for exploring issues of funding, community collaboration, sustainability, leadership, evaluation, and communication.

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A Method For Assessing Token Importance In Code-Switched Text Through Language Boundary Analysis, Mithun Kumar S R Sep 2025

A Method For Assessing Token Importance In Code-Switched Text Through Language Boundary Analysis, Mithun Kumar S R

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Existing explainable AI (XAI) attribution methods for natural language processing (NLP) models may have difficulty determining token importance in code-switched text, potentially leading to explanations that do not fully capture the emphasis conveyed by switching languages or the structural role of words at language boundaries. A method is described that can address this by performing token-level language identification to locate boundaries between languages in an input text. A contextual weighting engine can then assign weights to tokens within a code-switched segment and to boundary tokens adjacent to the switch. These weights may be used to modulate raw attribution scores generated …

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